Jewish Educators Network at ISTE 2012
Monday, June 25, 5:30pm-6:45pm PDT
Building/Room: SDCC 5 (San Diego Convention Center)
Schools and iPads
Jeff's school does not use iPads b/c kids would break them. his charter school
Liz's special needs school Gateways just bought 1 iPad for each class.
Alison teaches music but doesn't have one
jenny started using the iPad 1 year ago for music with instrument apps
And for math & writing
Jenny also has touch sensitive tables and they can use in small groups
Allison raised the issue that tech can't teach everything and some skills may be best enhanced through old school methods
Jeff said that we have to teach technology skills or they cannot do things
Online learning / blended learning
Integration of web tools into Judaic studies
Integration of web tools into teacher training
Favorite useful resources online/ offline
Other:
flipped classroom - beit mid rash model of learning that model; preparing materials in advance, using collaborative time, lecture time distinct, two areas have really been around for a long time;
some significant changes for it to really be 21st c class; need to be new models - how do we get there. remained ed models; what problems are being solved and what problems not being solved and then adjust models. how can we address one on one collaborative time.
new sometimes taking existing models, apply in places it has not been applies.
PBL school; how do we apply that - CHris Lehmann project based learning.
not about scale as much but about diversity;
can't teach how to do something; have to teach how to know how to do something
so much classical Jewish ed focuses on skills rather than content; advantage of Jewish ed no curriculum every Jewish school must complete; even schools content focused, ultimate goal teaching students to learn; school Eliezer's kids go to very content focused; kids do not know how to learn value still to content in a very real way; end of day learning skills so you can learn content better
first - cycle skills leads to knowledge and knowledge needs to skills there are schools that say knowledge is enough and does not have to leave to action; twenty first century not enough, have to teach that, cant just expect that schools just want kids to learn those chapters, or texts, tractates we normally learn - if content goal berachot and shabbat; schools were general gets at least as much attention as general ed; general following diff model, Jewish studies needs to follow suit argue separate question from content versus skills; wants driving differences is access, can have any access google any given question; you'll get lots of sources; science or history - sites made specifically; found certain sources, sudio, not made on student level - best out there; lots of students frustrated with lack of quality of the materials.
project with sixth and seventh graders - look up sukkotgoogle.comgoogle.co.il and another; look up Gilad Shalit; more of a Jewish point of view; will get that; when we did sukkot; tons of resources; if you search in English might be a problem; many don't have large enough can use google translate co.il and search for Hebrew terms but English overwhlelms Hebrew on the twitter.galim - huge project; brain pops.co.il
mikrah net; gemorah net; midreshet have to start with the goals and work backward; what your institutional and classroom goals are; all about institutional and classroom goals.
PBL - went to poster session with person from Chile; laid out PBL - narrative with branches, problme - options to solve and builds curriculum with narrative, students may come up with different ways; visual narrative map; also balance
Jewish ed contributes
digital citizenship - have opportunity to model proper use of tech in your schools; opportunity to model official lessons; have to focus on goals; identify goals and work backwards and not the other way
Monday, June 25, 5:30pm-6:45pm PDT
Building/Room: SDCC 5 (San Diego Convention Center)
remained ed models; what problems are being solved and what problems not being solved and then adjust models. how can we address one on one collaborative time.
first - cycle skills leads to knowledge and knowledge needs to skills there are schools that say knowledge is enough and does not have to leave to action; twenty first century not enough, have to teach that, cant just expect that schools just want kids to learn those chapters, or texts, tractates we normally learn - if content goal berachot and shabbat; schools were general gets at least as much attention as general ed; general following diff model, Jewish studies needs to follow suit argue separate question from content versus skills; wants driving differences is access, can have any access google any given question; you'll get lots of sources;
science or history - sites made specifically; found certain sources, sudio, not made on student level - best out there; lots of students frustrated with lack of quality of the materials.
Jewish ed contributes
have to focus on goals; identify goals and work backwards and not the other way